Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is the most common form of leukemia. It is considered a fatal disease due to its increasing resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs.
A number of years ago, methyl jasmonate, a plant stress hormone, was found to selectively kill chronic lymphotytic leukemia cells in the presence of normal human lymphoid cells. The method of death was apoptosis induced by damage to the leukemic mitochondria. The mitochondria of normal cells was not damaged.
Today I received an email from Kathy, a Grouppe Kurosawa Mouse, who purchased methyl jasmonate from us for the treatment of her chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This email speaks for itself.
I was diagnosed in May of 2003 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and tried and tried to find a 'natural cure' or something that would assist in a cure for my CLL. My Mom had died of cancer and I swear she died because of what the doctors did to her...and the chemicals. I didn't want to go that way. What I have and my Mom had are completely different. I think too many EMF's cause a lot of cancers. And lack of sunlight or good D3 (with olive oil) or both. There is no cure for any cancers yet. So, I did a lot of studying. When I came accross your site, I knew that "there's a person smart enough, and caring enough to find something soon!" So, I stuck with your 'cures' until I noticed that the MJ (an SB) seems to work.
My WBC's got as high as 485k before I submitted to the Fludarabine last year. Its 'cure' only lasted six months. I thought to use just that after reading the horrid side effects of the other chemicals. In July, before I used the MJ, my WBC was at 285k. I decided to get to it. Within the next week or two, the numbers dropped by about 10k or so. That was at 1x/week (as a steam aerosol treatment). I got really sick in August and Sept with a throat ailment (cankers in the Esophogus) and my neck nodes swelled to where I looked like a football player. It was hard to breathe. Sept., the many docs at the hospital gave me 12mg steroids per day, along with painkiller and antibiotics. They kept threatening me that if I didn't take my chemo, I'd probably suffocate. My oncologist lied to me-she said that I would not loose my hair with PCR, Cytotoxin being the culprit. I'm checking out other docs. I had taken the steroids and allupurinol for four weeks (approx). I swelled up like a Campbell Soup doll and was crazy mentally with this stuff. I did taper off, but I swear that the effects of getting off made me sicker.
My nodes didn't go down unt il I started doing the MJ more often. The doc said they wouldn't go down without chemo. I started using MJ every 3 days, with leftovers in the arm pits with DMSO when there were leftovers. MJ does irritate my throat. But, right now, and for three blood tests in a row, my WBC's are down to 23k. This doesn't usually happen. It usually shoots back up, and fast. Every other night, I take a teaspoon of organic bicarbonate of soda and mix with well water. Usually at bedtime. Drink fast...it's nasty/salty. An Italian oncologist says that tumors are fungi gone crazy and to wash them with SB. I don't have a doc that will give it to me in IV (I have the blood tumor CLL) yet. It's great for the kidneys if you don't have Allupurinol. But, considering that Linus Pauling uses SB to buffer his high-dose C IV to cure some breast cancers, and that Italian doc, maybe SB and/or MJ is the answer. Maybe most cancers are just that simple. After all, MJ is also a fungus killer. Most synthetic fungal drugs are not only bad for side effects but they don't really work. But, I think my side effects are either from the steroid withdrawal, or the CLL or the MJ, but I can take it...with pain killers sometimes. It feels like my shoulders are being dislocated. Maybe it's something different altogether. I'll be finding a neurologist soon. Since getting off the steroids, I still get a fever almost every day. Never had that happen. Usually I sweat it off at night. Of course, being socked in with over two feet of snow and being freaking freezing...that probably doesn't help. :) But, this is all I have...and it seems to work. I think we're on to something...I really do. Thanks so much for being you, Steve. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kathy, Kurosawa Mouse and New Englander
COMMENT
MJ is a plant defense hormone that does kill fungus. Fungal infections are very difficult to treat in humans, especially in those with damaged immune sytems such as AIDS. Maybe MJ could be useful as a treatment for fungal treatments in humans. I have no idea. Only time will tell.
Stay tuned...
Grouppekurosawa, Medicine in the Public Interest
Kathy ; Thank you very much for your detailed and useful account of your experience. Please update us on your healing when you can.
kwalker
Posted by: kwalker | December 23, 2008 at 07:13 PM
At last some feedback! Keep on getting well Kathy and thanks so much for taking the time to let us in on what is going on with you and your experience with MJ.
Maybe we got something started here. I hope.
Larry B.
Posted by: Larry B | December 24, 2008 at 06:44 AM
Kathy Thanks a million bunches, even we want to get some MJ soon Dr. Steve I found this article on the Net, I hope this helps all your mice :
1. Sulindac sulfide-induced apoptosis is enhanced by a small-molecule Bcl-2 inhibitor and by TRAIL in human colon cancer cells overexpressing Bcl-2.
------ You had blogged about the scientist who lost his funding by engineering mice whose BAX could be raised on Demand ( BAX lowers BCL-2 expression) You also Blogged that Bloodroot raises BAX. Do you think there could be a synergy here? Could using the Bloodroot Bcl-2 pathway instead of Tnf work just as well. One more thing I found in a study that just 1 to 3 mmol/L sodium salicylate is all that is required for it to induce apoptosis. Na Sal only lowered one of the Bcl proteins BAX Bcl2 remaining unchanged.
Posted by: GS | December 24, 2008 at 11:50 AM
It's funny that you mention sodium bicarbonate. I happened upon a discussion the other day regarding anti-fungal medications, sodium bicarbonate and Cimetidine. As we know, Cimetidine inhibits the breakdown of certian chemicals in the body. To remedy this, scientists developed Rantadine (sp?) by removing an imidazole ring from the Cimetidine compound.
What is fascinating is that when they were tested against one another for their cytotoxic anti-cancer properties, Rantadine did not provide the same anti-cancer benefits of Cimetidine.
This has lead some to postulate that the imidazole ring is what gives Cimetidine its cancer-fighting properties.
I'm not a chem guy, but apparently imidazole rings are chemical structures commonly found in anti-fungals meds.
Seems like a weird coincidence....
Leaving that aside, have you tried the combo of sodium bicarbonate cooked with maple syrup? There are numerous testimonials on the web of people who have used it.
Posted by: jbehles | December 29, 2008 at 01:15 PM
I did not write this essay. Kathy is not a member of this blog.
Posted by: Dr. Steve | December 29, 2008 at 02:29 PM
Dr. Martin,
Do you mean the above essay is bogus?????
I don't understand.
Larry B.
Posted by: Larry B. | December 29, 2008 at 05:16 PM
Kathy wrote me about her pleasure with MJ. I asked her write up her experience so I could post it. She wrote the following essay which is in her own words and is not bogus.
Posted by: Dr. Steve | December 29, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Sorry for any confusion, I didn't realize that she wasn't a member of the blog. I guess it's going to be hard for her to answer my question then...
;)
BTW, I don't think the fungus theory has much to offer, but who knows...
Posted by: jbehles | December 29, 2008 at 06:46 PM
I have CLL and I have ordered MJ. When it comes in I will post if I see any change in my condition.
Dave
Posted by: David | September 30, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Is there anyone still following this blog?
Posted by: David | September 30, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Hi David,
My husband has CLL and I am looking for ways to order methyl jasmonate. So far, none of my emails to suppliers were returned. Could you please share your sources of methyl jasmonate.
Thank you.
Aliki
Posted by: aliki_helman@yahoo.com | October 20, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Hi Aliki
I get my mj from methyljasmonate.com
Good luck
Posted by: David | November 20, 2009 at 07:04 AM